Research Article

The Numerical Simulation of Hard Rocks for Tunnelling Purposes at Great Depths: A Comparison between the Hybrid FDEM Method and Continuous Techniques

Table 6

Input parameters for the generation of the discrete fracture network (DFN) geometries.

Joint setDFN parametersValue

1Mean dip (°)80
Mean length (m)1.0
Std. Dev. (m)0.5
Intensity P21

2Mean dip (°)10
Mean length (m)1.0
Std. Dev. (m)0.5
Intensity P21

P2 = (sum of lengths)/area.